Protection Against Negative Energy
Bienvenido don goyito resumen. Written By Liz Oakes
Black Tourmaline crystal is a powerful stone for protection against negative energy of all kinds.
Many people, and I am among this group, believe this is the best protection stone that you can use.
Its energy brings psychic protection and EMF protection, and it is a strong spiritual grounding stone.
Black tourmaline has powerful protective energy. It wards off negative energy. Being a member of the vast tourmaline family, it is also a stone of strong spiritual energy. Black obsidian is also a protective stone (as are all black stones in general). If you find its energy compatible to yours, you can use it for personal protection. How Black Tourmaline Works. Tourmaline, when you look at it, is made of “rods” or double terminations. Each one of those rods can be seen as or compared to a wire that pulls harmful energies out of a space. That’s a ton of energy grabbing from one stone alone. Many people I know use black tourmaline as an EMF protector and swear by it due to its composition. This is not to say that Shungite cannot do what Black Tourmaline does. I would say that the best thing is to take a look at both black tourmaline and shungite. Black Tourmaline gives psychic protection against negative energy & psychic attack. Meaning & Use: aids spiritual grounding, heals allergies, brings good luck & happiness. Obsidian (/əbˈsɪdiən/) is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed when lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth. It is an igneous rock. Obsidian is produced from felsic lava, rich in the lighter elements such as silicon, oxygen, aluminium, sodium, and potassium.
This is one of the top stones to use to prevent psychic attack and it is one of the most popular crystals to be used for metaphysical purposes.
Its wonderful to hold Black Tourmaline in your hand as it has such a positive energy!
Also known as Schorl, it encourages optimistic attitudes as well asgood luck and happiness, regardless of the circumstances that you find yourself in.
They are wonderful healing crystals for you to use as they bring relief from pain, boost the immune system, aid stress and arthritis.
These black crystals create a favorable approach to life and a positive mindset.
They are beneficial aids to both the professional healer and the average person who wants a stone that will be a positive force for good in your life.
Where Is It From? Meaning Of Tourmaline
The black variety of Tourmaline has been found in a large number of locations, including Pakistan, Australia, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Africa and the USA. It is also known as Schorl Tourmaline.
While the black variety of Tourmaline is fairly common, some of the other types of tourmaline are not so easy to obtain and may even be called rare stones.
This stone is easy to obtain, and it is definitely worth looking for as it an excellent addition to your collection for reasons explained below.
The name of this mineral is made up of two words, and of course we all understand the Black which relates to its color, but some people have wondered about the word Tourmaline.
The black variety of Tourmaline is just one of a group of different colored stones that all have a similar structure, yet its meaning is incorrect when you go back to the origin of the word.
This word came from a regional term in Sri Lanka, based on the Sinhalese word 'turmali', that referred to yellow Zircon.
This name has since changed a little to the current word Tourmaline.
It's use began due to a mistake, when a consignment of stone was sent from Sri Lanka with the label Turmalin.
For some reason they liked the name and began to use it and it stuck.
The structure and look of natural pieces of tourmaline are the same, regardless of the color.
This relates to the presence of vertical striations, ridges or furrows on the stones, and this is one way to identify Black Tourmaline in the natural form.
Although it is known as the black variety of tourmaline, not all of the black stones are black, but are a very dark blue color, although it is hard to tell the difference.
This is a powerful asset to your health, as it not only removes the negative energy but by changing it to positive energy it has an excellent effect on your well-being!
Health Benefits Of This Stone
There are a number of health benefits of Black Tourmaline stone, including:
- The energy of this stone is known to help you to release stress, and it is one of the most powerful crystals for stress relief.
- As both stress and anxiety is a health problem that is so widespread these days, we could all benefit from having a piece of this crystal nearby.
- It's energy may aid adrenal fatigue, as ongoing stress can both cause and worsen adrenal fatigue.
- This mineral is known to strengthen the immune system and to assist pain relief for arthritis.
- It is also reputed to relieve the pain related to spinal or muscular problems.
- If you are prone to obsessive behavior, this stone is also a powerful ally to help you to disconnect from these activities.
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Some time ago, scientists came out in the media discussing the issues around the vibrations emanating from electrical devices and cell phones.
The discussion centered around the negative effect on your body's electrical system, that devices emit and the relationship to electromagnetic sensitivity.
Electromagnetic sensitivity is quite widespread as so many people now use mobile phones, and for many hours a day.
Many scientists recommend for that reason that you should try to have your nights rest in an area where you have as few electrical devices as possible.
While this is hard to do, it is a good idea not to sleep with your mobile device in the bedroom.
Adding some Black Tourmaline crystals to the bedroom will aid you to regulate your body's electrical system.
Transmutes Negativity & Electromagnetic Smog
Black Tourmaline will ground you quite quickly, so it is highly beneficial to keep a piece of this stone on you.
It is helpful both for grounding and for protection from beings from the lower realms.
If you do a lot of spiritual work, are working on your spiritual healing or have strong psychic abilities and you use these abilities quite a lot, you may become ungrounded.
This is one of the stones that I always keep in my pocket or wear on my body as jewelry, along with a few others.
If you acquire a small cloth bag, and many crystal shops sell them, you can put your crystals in your pocket easily each day, just so you don't lose them.
The good thing about this stone is that it does not absorb negativity, but changes or alters it, transmutes it, into positive energy.
This means it improves the vibration of the air where it is located. Keeping it in the bedroom will help you to sleep better and wake more refreshed.
Cleansing Schorl
Some people have asked me about how to cleanse this stone. It is safe to rinse it under running water both to remove dust and if you think it needs cleansing of negative energy.
You can use any of the methods for cleansing crystals.
If you have it in an environment where there is an influx of electrical energy and EMF's or where there are lots of negative people, it may be beneficial to cleanse it regularly.
Although this black stone transmutes negativity, which may mean that it may not need cleansing to remove negative vibrations, this may depend on how much negativity the stone is dealing with, and the size of the piece.
Cleansing it would be helpful to make sure that the negativity that it is dealing with has not been too high for its size and what its doing to help you.
Who Should Use It? Chakras & Grounding
These stones are excellent crystals to use them for grounding and utilizing them by holding them while doing a grounding meditation may be helpful, as these are a wonderful ally in the process.
These crystals are strong stones for the two lowest chakras. These chakra are the earth star chakra and the base or root chakra, and this makes them powerful stones for grounding.
These black stones channel an excess of energy down through the base or root chakra down to the earth star chakra, allowing you to release an excess of energy that has caused you to feel unwell.
This is one of the most potent stones to use if you are feeling unwell, including feeling spaciness or other health issues caused by the need to ground yourself.
If you are not sure if you need to ground yourself, please read my in-depth article on grounding and see the symptoms of being ungrounded.
Find out.. Are You Ungrounded?
Benefits Of Wearing This Black Stone
Lovely Black Tourmaline jewelry pieces can be bought, including nice pendants or even rough stones that are set in silver, and beads are also available.
They are a birthstone for the Capricorn sign so you may find lovely birthstone jewelry containing this stone.
Although Black Tourmaline jewelry is not as common as the other colors of Tourmaline, it is possible to buy very nice pendants made from the stone.
One of the reason it is not so common, is because much of this stone is not stable enough to cut into cabochons, but Australian stone is highly stable.
The solid and stable stone from the Flinders Ranges in Australia, can be cut into lovely checker cut pieces, like the one in the photo above, and they make beautiful pendants.
Whatever type you buy, wearing it is very beneficial.
One of the best ways to use crystals like these is to keep a piece of this stone on you at all times. This is highly recommended!
As jewelry made from these black stones is becoming more commonly available, these powerful black stones are now on the zodiac birthstones list.
Wearing Black Tourmaline jewelry may help you, as it can be advantageous to have piece on your body.
Black Tourmaline With Mica: How Will It Help You?
Black Tourmaline With Mica is an excellent stone to prevent psychic attack.
It you have this stone on you, when negative energy or ill wishes are sent to you, it is said to send the energy back to the person who sent it.
When this energy is returned to the sender, it has an effect on the sender and helps them to no longer wish to continue attacking you.
I know that there are stones that send back the negative energy, but this stone will not do that unless it has inclusions of mica in it, see the silvery inclusion in the stone in the image.
Many people are not aware that normal Black Tourmaline stone simply changes negative energy to positive energy.
But if it also contains mica, it will send bad feelings back to the person who sent it, allowing the sender to realize what has occurred.
The best stone to use to send negative energy back to where it was sent from is Fire Agate, so you may like to combine these together.
In these days when life is getting increasingly frantic, many people are feeling highly stressed.
A Black Tourmaline stone is a powerful aid to helping you to let of the negativity generated by the way we live our lives.
Why Would You Use It? Electromagnetic Smog
Black Tourmaline is easy to buy, and it will also act to protect you against psychic attack and negative entities.
You all have times when you feel negative, or when you encounter other people who are giving off vibrations that are not pleasing to you.
You all live with a lot of electromagnetic smog, including your televisions, computers and the large number of other electrical devices that seem to be essential these days, just to live your life.
What is the role of Black Tourmaline to aid the body to heal, including health issues related to electromagnetic emanations?
- These stones are strong EMF protection crystals that will purify the area where they are located.
- A powerful fact about this black crystal is that it will suck up any negativity or disharmony that it encounters from its surroundings.
- But it does not absorb it, but will transmute or convert the negative energy into positive energy.
- This stone is powerful for healing and will strengthen the immune system and help allergies.
- It is highly beneficial for psychic protection as well as for spiritual purposes, and may aid spiritual healing and growth.
How To Use It? My Final Thoughts
Once you have learned any of the easy methods to meditate, you may also wish to use one of these stones in meditation.
They will help you to let go of negativity and self doubts or any feelings of anxiety or negativity of any kind.
Having the vibration of Black Tourmaline stone stone within your aura for as long as possible each day is to your advantage, as they are good crystals for stress.
Wearing stones as jewelry is the easiest way to keep a piece of the stone on your body. But if this is not possible keep a piece of the stone in the room with you.
These stones are helpful to assist you if you have adrenal exhaustion, as they embody a useful energy that relieves stress.
In summary: if it is not possible for you to have them on you during the day, it would be advantageous to at least have a couple of these stones in the bedroom.
Putting one of these crystals on your bedside or under your pillow is very helpful, as it will cleanse your etheric body while you sleep, as well as the room where you are sleeping.
Their action as crystals to prevent psychic attack is one of the highly beneficial attributes of this stone, and is another powerful reason to keep one nearby.
Crystal Books
There are quite a few new books that have hit the market lately. Some are very in-depth crystal reference books, others just worth reading.
I feel that any one of these books would benefit you when you have a specific question you need answered.
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Using It With Other Stones
This Black stone is an integral part of the process of keeping healthy, and may be combined with other strong grounding stones.
You may like to use it with Dravite aka Brown Tourmaline, Black Diopside, Black Spinel, Prophecy Stone or Ilvaite.
This is an excellent stone to use if you have been having issues with muscle pain and are looking for relief.
But there are also a number of other helpful stones that you can combine with this stone to relieve your pain.
Specific stones that I can suggest to help muscular pain includes Spessartine Garnet, Fuchsite, Amber and Emerald stone.
If you feel you are suffering from health issues that are related to EMF's and suffer from electrical hypersensitivity when you are near specific devices there are quite a few EMF protection stones that will also assist your body to deal with this issue.
Stones that are have an energy that may help with healing this type of sensitivity include Aegirine, Fulgurite, Fluorite and Shungite.
You may like to use it with Black Andradite Garnet, as this is a strong earth chakra stone that may be combined with this black variety of Tourmaline, to create an excellent grounding effect.
It also combines well with any of the base chakra stones, including Smokey Quartz, Black Onyx, Sphalerite, Dalmatian Jasper and Black Obsidian.
There are quite a few other psychic protection stones that combine well with Black Tourmaline including Tourmalinated Quartz, Black Obsidian, Charoite, Zircon and the beautiful violet flame crystals, Purple Amethyst.
These are all highly protective stones, that will be enhanced by the vibration of this stone.
Schorl With Other Minerals
Read more about it here on the Jeremejevite page, if you'd like to know more about this unusual and rare mix of minerals.
The piece above not only has Black Schorl but also pale Yellow Green Tourmaline as well, along with Cleavelandite.
Black Tourmaline commonly occurs as an inclusion in quartz, and when its Black Tourmaline in quartz, it is known as Tourmilated Quartz. Other colors of tourmaline also occur as more chunky pieces in quartz.
In-Depth Pages About Stones in The B Alphabetic Group
- Black Jade
- Black Moonstone
- Black Onyx
- Blue Barite
- Blue Calcite
- Blue Kyanite
- Blue Topaz
- Blue Tourmaline
- Boli Stone
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| Translucent (see the shadow?) Black Obsidian (L), Black Tourmaline Nugget (R) |
Can You Wear Black Obsidian And Black Tourmaline Together
Black Tourmaline and Black Obsidian are two of several gemstones that are shiny and black, and they can appear somewhat similar. So how can you tell the difference? I recently had an encounter with a customer who felt that the black tourmaline necklace she purchased was obsidian and not tourmaline (although it was definitely tourmaline!). Well, in case other people are also confused regarding the difference between Black Tourmaline (a mineral) and Black Obsidian ('mineraloid' natural volcanic glass), here is some information I hope you find helpful!BLACK TOURMALINE
Tourmaline is a beautiful gemstone that comes in many colors, and since it can't be created in a lab (so only natural Tourmaline is found), it can be very expensive. Black Tourmaline, or 'Schorl', is an inexpensive type of genuine Tourmaline---it's a rich black opaque color, and is found in abundance all over the world. Sometimes in bright light you can see glints of red--that's due to iron in the gem. It grows within host rock, in large crystals, small crystals, and in various nugget and chunk forms. Rough tourmaline can be left to look rough, or it can be polished, sliced, or faceted. If you are looking for Tourmaline to wear for its metaphysical properties, Black Tourmaline is a great and affordable choice.
Here are some examples of Black Tourmaline----if you google that, you can see a very wide variety of sizes and shapes of tourmaline nuggets, crystals, shards, etc. Here are pictures of rough chunks of Black tourmaline, taken from various geologic and gemstone websites:
That last picture is from an Etsy seller---a very reputable, large-volume gemstone seller, who correctly describes these as 'Tourmaline Gemstone Top-Drilled Large Raw Shards. Semi-Precious Gemstones.'
And here is the actual strand of these types of 'shards' of rough black Tourmaline that I purchased from another lovely seller on Etsy:
And it was one of those shards in that strand (right in the front!) that I sold to the one Amazon buyer who claims it's 'obsidian'. As you can see, these shards look the SAME as the rough pictured above---especially in pictures 3 and 4! These shards have been sliced and polished on the back, and the rough 'lumpy' part is on the front.
Here is my favorite picture of tourmaline 'in the rough'. It's a picture taken from the GIA website (Gemological Institute of America) in an article discussing Emeralds..but here is a large growth of Black Tormaline, plus Emerald, Mica, Pyrite and Quartz. But look at the 'lumpy' as well as 'crystal' nature of this large Tourmaline find:
I love how this shows the wide variety of shapes and forms of Black Tourmaline. It also shows the distinctive 'lumpy' rough texture that the tourmaline shards that I purchased exhibit. The upper right looks almost like burnt bark---and sort of like black lava rock! I would LOVE to have a piece of that beautiful emerald!!!There are 'crystals' of black Tourmaline as well. These are found and sold in large nuggets, with more of a hexagonal crystal structure visible, and sometimes with crystal 'tubes' than run along the length of the nugget. Often they look a lot like pieces of black licorice. Some are very shiny and black. Often they have very visible fractures and other surface cracks and flaws. Here are some examples:
So you can see a wide variety of Black Tourmaline shapes---from crystals to nuggets to lumps and shards.
OBSIDIAN
Black Tourmaline For Sale
Black Obsidian is black volcanic glass. It is translucent--not completely opaque. It's considered to be a mineraloid gemstone despite the fact that there is no mineral crystal structure in glass. But it is natural, very shiny and black (and can also be smokey grey, brown, rusty red, banded, with 'snowflakes' and in other colors). Obsidian has a smooth uniform texture, and breaks with 'conchoidal fractures' or semi-circular patterns. This is distinctive to obsidian and glass:
Now, both black tourmaline and obsidian are black and shiny. But obsidian does NOT have the rough and lumpy texture that tourmaline has. Plus, when obsidian is carved or split or broken, it fractures in distinctive round radiating circles---like when you toss a rock into a lake.
Incidentally, the value for black tourmaline and black obsidian is about the same, although there are many instances where obsidian is far more valuable than black tourmaline. Obsidian is often used in making black opal doublets and triplets.
Obsidian, being glass, is VERY sharp when broken, so there is no such thing as 'shards' of obsidian that are drilled and sold as pendants. (Haha---reminds me of the old SNL skit about a terrible kids' toy called 'Bag O' Glass'!) There are polished obsidian beads. Most obsidian is sold in chunks for gem collectors.
So really, it's pretty easy to tell Black Tourmaline from Black Obsidian, just from the pictures! And having it examined by a gemologist would tell you FOR SURE if it's glass or a mineral.
Other gems that look very similar to these black gems are Black Onyx and Hematite, and even Black Spinel. Chalcedony quartz is sometimes dyed black to look like Black Onyx.
Tourmaline is a beautiful gemstone and comes in many colors, including multi-hued gems such as Watermelon Tourmaline. Here are some incredibly beautiful shards of genuine tourmaline, and the price for these on Etsy (they are about dime-sized) is just under $1,000:
Don't they look like stained glass shards? They're so beautiful! And definitely NOT glass!!